If approved, FADPA would allow copyright holders to obtain court orders requiring large Internet service providers (ISPs) and DNS resolvers to block access to pirate sites. The bill would amend existing copyright law to focus specifically on ‘foreign websites’ that are ‘primarily designed’ for copyright infringement.
The inclusion of DNS resolvers is significant. Major tech companies such as Google and Cloudflare offer DNS services internationally, raising the possibility of blocking orders having an effect worldwide. DNS providers with less than $100 million in annual revenue are excluded.
While site blocking is claimed to exist in more than 60 countries, DNS resolvers are typically not included in site blocking laws and regulations. These services have been targeted with blocking requests before but it’s certainly not standard.
It’s aimed at DNS resolvers, so folks better start busting out them Pi-Holes and setting up unbound.
They blocked Pirate sites here in Australia years ago, and as far as I’m aware it affected nobody. Everyone who knows how to torrent already knows how to get by it.
Because peeps who frequent pirate sites will never be able to figure out DNS stuff!
More virtual theater bc the real ones suck.Oh nooooo here I go recording the IP addresses of the sites I visit in case I need to add DNS records to my router oh nooooo
If you are sailing the seven seas, you should be using a vpn of any kind by default, so this won’t do shit to you anyway.
Italy thinks their crappy piracy shield works and it does jack to anyone using even the cheapest vpn.
If DNS gets blocked, can’t sites still be accessed as long as you know the IP or Socket of the server?
Sometimes that works, it depends on how the server is set up. For DNS blocking, you just switch to a different DNS server or run your own DNS resolver.
Parasites butthurt
